US Patent Issued to Black Hills IP Holdings on May 26 for "Patent claim mapping" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,318, issued on May 26, was assigned to Black Hills IP Holdings LLC (Minneapolis).

"Patent claim mapping" was invented by Steven W. Lundberg (Edina, Minn.) and Lars Olof Hugo Svensson (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer implemented method of patent mapping are provided. The method comprises maintaining a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios; maintaining a database of ontologies, the ontologies including one or more patent concepts in defined groups;...